The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-06
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

Ex-PREsIDENT MARK HOPKINS, of Will
liams College, died at Williamstown. Mass,
a few days since, aged eighty-fve years.
REV. DR.. Roswell HITCHCOCK, President
of Union Theological Seminary of New
York, is dead in his seventy-first year.
THE Rhode Island Legislature adjourned
without accomplishing any business because
of the political deadlock.
MRS. CLEVELAND, the Presidents wife has
been revisiting Wells College, Aurora, N. Y,
of which she is graduate.
An Elmira(N " dispatch says that CDR. R.
n. Mills, who had power of attorney from
Francis Patterson, the blind man who re-
ceived a week ago S13, 800 pension money
largest ever granted, has disappeared, and
about s., 600 Of the old mans money Is also
missing. Evidence is accumulating to show
that Mills obtained the pension by bogus ath-
davits and has defrauded the government
ROBERT E. LEE Camp of Virginia Veterans
received many attentions during their recent
visit to Boston. At a banquet given in their
honor in Faneuil Hall addresses were made
by Governor Ames, Senator Hoar, ex-Con-
gresham Goode, Of Virginia, and others.
Rev. FATHER MICHAEL, principal of a
c :tho]ic College, was struck by train and
killed at Olean, N. Y.
JOHN ENSbERG, d young printer VI o"Ooh'
lyn. n. Y, wound up protracted spree oy
shooting his widowed mother and then him.
self. both wounds being fatal. He expressed
great satisfaction at having committed the
unnatural crime.
CHARLES ALDEN, seventy years old, the
inventor of milk kcondenslng, fruit-evapor'
ating and other processes, committed suicide
at Randolph, Mass, by shooting himself. He
was temporarily insane.
FIVE men were buried under a sand bank
at Erie, Penn. Two were killed.
A STROKE of lightning fatally injured two
gypsy girls while sitting under q tree al
Reading, Penn
A FAMILY of five persons was made Ill az
Philadelphia by eating canned salmon, ana
alarming revelations have been made IN con-
nection with deleteriouS ingredients used Oy
bakers and confectioners in that city, from
which several deaths have recently occurred.
BY the upsetting of the barge P. H. " alter
on Lake Erie during cyclone eight person:
lost their lives.
DANIEL Pratt, crank, known all over the
country by the title, 1.-The Great American
Traveller" Of which he was very proud, died q
few days since in Boston hospital. He lad
led wandering life for many years.
IT took q large police force to quell 6. dis
turbance around Faneuil Hall, Boston, Ill
which British Americans were holding a
Jubilee banquet against the protests of Irish.
Americans Permission to use the hall had
been granted by the Board of Aldermen.
FIVE men we're fatally injured by an ex-
plosion of fire damp in Scranton colliery.
BR1rIsH-BoRN residents of New York cele-
brated Queen Victoria's Jubilee by speeches
and music in the Metropolitan Opera House
and fireworks on Staten Island. Irishmen
and women opposed to the Jubilee held
crowded meeting in Cooper Union ITO COM
memorate thesdead of the Irish race who
have perishei Oh the scaffold and IN the lrlsa
DUNGEON. and by famine and eviction during
the fifty years of Victoria's misrule."